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HEALTH AND SAFETY - SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION WORK
CDM 2015
GUIDANCE FOR SCHOOLS
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INTRODUCTION
Construction work can involve many different people, doing many different things at
different times. It means everyone has a role to play in managing construction health
and safety risks. This can include the person/s commissioning construction work,
known as the client.
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM 2015) are the main
set of regulations for managing health, safety and welfare on construction projects.
CDM applies to all building and construction work and includes new build, demolition
work, refurbishment, extensions, conversions, repair and maintenance.
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham employees may commission work that
comes under the definition of construction work and hence will need to be aware of
their role and responsibilities as the client under CDM 2015.
CDM OVERVIEW
Construction work can be dangerous and often involves multiple parties having to
work together to ensure the project is run safely. The purpose of CDM 2015 is to:
• Manage construction work health and safety risks by applying the general
principles of prevention contained in CDM 2015
• Ensure the right (competent) persons and/or organisations are appointed at
the right time
• Ensure the right information, instruction, training and supervision needed to
carry out construction work safely is provided to the right people
• Ensure all legal duty holders cooperate, communicate and co-ordinate their
work
CDM 2015 is divided into five parts:
• Part 1 deals with the application of CDM 2015 and definitions
• Part 2 covers the duties of clients for all construction projects. These duties
apply in full for commercial clients. However, the duties for domestic clients
normally pass to other dutyholders
• Part 3 covers the health and safety duties and roles of other dutyholders,
including:
i) Designers
ii) Principal designers
iii) Principal contractors
iv) Contractors
• Part 4 contains general requirements for all construction sites
• Part 5 contains transitional arrangements and revocations
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KEY PLAYERS
There are several key players involved with CDM 2015. The table below details
these players and summarises the roles and responsibilities:
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
A client is an organisation or A client has responsibility to make suitable
individual having a arrangements for managing a project. This includes
construction project carried ensuring:
out in connection with a • the client brief is completed
business • other duty holders (if more than one contractor
is to be appointed) are appointed
• sufficient time and resources are allocated
• relevant information is prepared and provided
to other duty holders
• the principal designer and principal contractor
carry out their duties
• welfare facilities are provided
A designer is someone who The designer’s role when preparing or modifying
as part of a business, designs is to eliminate, reduce or control foreseeable
prepares or modifies designs risks that may happen during construction or
for a building, product or maintenance and use of a building after it’s been
system relating to built. The designer also provides information to other
construction work members of the project team to help them fulfil their
duties.
A principal designer is The principal designer is responsible for planning,
appointed by the client of managing, monitoring and coordinating health and
projects with more than one safety in the pre-construction phase of a project. This
contractor. It can be an includes:
organisation or an individual • identifying, eliminating or controlling
with sufficient knowledge, foreseeable risks
experience and ability to • ensuring designers carry out their duties.
carry out the role • preparing and providing relevant information
to other dutyholders.
The principal designer also liaises with the principal
contractor to help in the planning, management and
monitoring of the health and safety in the
construction phase.
A contractor is the individual The contractor’s duty is to:
or organisation doing the • plan, manage and monitor construction work
actual construction work. under their control so that it is carried out
without risks to health and safety.
• for projects involving more than one
contractor, co-ordinate their activities with
others in the project team – in particular,
comply with directions given to them by the
principal designer or principal contractor.
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• for single contractor projects, prepare a
construction phase plan.
A principal contractor is The principal contractor’s duty is to:
appointed by the client to • plan, manage, monitor and coordinate health
plan, manage, monitor and and safety in the construction phase of a
co-ordinate health and safety project
during the construction phase • liaise with the client and principal designer
of a project when there’s • prepare the construction phase plan
more than one contractor • organise cooperation between contractors and
involved coordinate their work.
They must ensure that:
• suitable site inductions are provided
• reasonable steps are taken to prevent
unauthorised access
• workers are consulted and engaged in health
and safety matters
• welfare facilities are provided
A worker is an individual Workers must:
working for or under the • be consulted about matters which affect their
control of contractors on a health, safety and welfare
construction site • take care of their own health and safety and
others who may be affected by their actions
• report anything they see which is likely to
endanger either their own or others’ health
and safety
• cooperate with their employer, fellow workers,
contractors and other duty holders
CDM APPLICATION
CDM 2015 applies to construction projects as a whole that is the whole
construction process from concept to completion (L153).
A construction project means a project which includes or is intended to include
construction work, including planning, design and management of a project until
the end of the construction phase.
Construction work means the carrying out of any building, civil engineering or
engineering construction work on a structure. There are 5 areas defined in CDM
2015 as follows:
a) the construction, alteration, conversion, fitting out, commissioning, renovation,
repair, upkeep, redecoration or other maintenance (including cleaning which
involves the use of water or an abrasive at high pressure, or the use of
corrosive or toxic substances), de-commissioning, demolition or dismantling of
a structure
b) the preparation for an intended structure, including site clearance, exploration,
investigation (but not site survey) and excavation (but not pre-construction
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